In order to take a step closer towards the realisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), Germany and the Netherlands are setting up an international office to support the GO FAIR Initiative, the International Support and Coordination Office (ISCO). France is joining them and will also contribute to the office. Ler mais sobre Progress towards the European Open Science Cloud »

EOSCpilot is organising its first Stakeholder event in The Square, Brussels, on 28-29 November 2017. The event aims at charting a course towards a concrete and sustainable European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), identifying first steps on the EU added-value of EOSC and its building blocks to make Europeans do their research better. Ler mais sobre First EOSC Stakeholder Forum is shaping the future of the EOSC »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany offered us a chance to interview Jean-Pierre Panziera, the ETP4HPC Chairman. ETP4HPC is an association led by the European HPC industry. It is gathering all the stakeholders in the European HPC ecosystem with the goal of developing a worldclass HPC supply chain. ETP4HPC's focus is to develop the HPC technology in Europe. Ler mais sobre ETP4HPC plays instrumental role in development of European exascale programme »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany provided us with an excellent occasion to interview Marc Morere who is in charge of the strategy of the scientific computing centre at Airbus for 14 years now. HPC is a topic where Marc Morere has been focusing on for a very long time. Airbus needs HPC to design aircraft and for the optimization of the machines. There are different parts... Ler mais sobre Airbus needs HPC capacity to stay competitive »

The Programme Committee (PC) of the second Digital Infrastructures for Research (DI4R 2017) invites everyone with an interest in Open Science to bring their voice to DI4R 2017. DI4R 2017 will be held in Brussels, on 30 November - 1 December 2017. It will take place at the Square Meeting Centre, and is organised jointly by EGI, EUDAT, GÉANT, OpenAIRE, PRACE and RDA Europe. The abstract... Ler mais sobre Digital Infrastructures for Research 2017 to announce Call for Abstracts »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany allowed us to talk with Michael Malms, who is working at the ETP4HPC Office. His responsibility is to bring together strategic documents like the multi-annual roadmap (SRA), orchestrate workshops, and also pushing certain ideas like the extreme-scale demonstrator idea that the ETP4HPC Workshop focused on. Ler mais sobre ETP4HPC to lay out roadmap for tangible HPC products within Europe »

The next e-IRG Open Workshop will take place in Tallinn, Estonia, 3-4 October 2017. The main objective of the e-IRG workshop is the contribution towards some main directions in the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Key areas that will be explored include governance, funding, services and data-related aspects. Sustainability will be a cross-cutting theme. Ler mais sobre e-IRG Open Workshop to address European Open Science Cloud governance »

The ETP4HPC Workshop at ISC'17 in Frankfurt, Germany provided us with an excellent occasion to interview Martin Palkovic from IT4Innovations, the National Supercomputing Centre in the Czech Republic. IT4Innovations is both serving as a cycle provider, distributing cycles to mostly Czech academia but also industry, and as an expertise provider, helping the customers, either from academia or... Ler mais sobre IT4Innovations actively contributes in creating HPC ecosystem to reach exascale »

GÉANT has appointed Erik Huizer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective immediately, replacing Steve Cotter who has left GÉANT by mutual agreement with the GÉANT Association Board. As the result of this appointment, Erik Huizer will temporarily suspend his activities at SURFnet. Once GÉANT has recruited a new permanent CEO, Erik Huizer will resume his position as CTO at SURFnet. Ler mais sobre GÉANT appoints Erik Huizer as Interim CEO »

ELIXIR has released its 2016 Annual Report highlighting the major achievements of 2016 and illustrating the growth and maturity of ELIXIR's services. It also shows progress made towards the priorities of the current ELIXIR Scientific Programme 2014-2018 and sets the scene for the remainder of the programing cycle. Ler mais sobre ELIXIR publishes its 2016 Annual Report »

The second edition of the European HPC Summit Week (EHPCSW) took place in the North Campus of the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain and was hosted by Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The aim of the conference series "European HPC Summit Week" is to gather all related European HPC stakeholders, including institutions, service providers, users, communities, vendors and... Ler mais sobre Impressions from the European HPC Summit Week 2017 in Barcelona, Spain »

The Second RICH Symposium was held on May 8, 2017 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal. The objectives of the symposium were to showcase approaches to innovation taken by Research Infrastructures and projects in all scientific domains, as well as to provide a floor for the discussion of policies and incentives for innovation. Ler mais sobre Money cannot buy me love - but can it buy me innovation? »

The Research Data Alliance, together with ENVRI, is organizing the RDA EU - ENVRI Summer School on Data Management and Data Science, taking place 12-16 June 2017 in Helsinki/Espoo, Finland. Participants can learn how to do FAIR compliant professional Data Management and receive experience and practice with the latest software to manage and analyse data. Ler mais sobre RDA Europe - ENVRI Summer School on Data Management and Data Science »

During the 4th National eScience Symposium, held in Amsterdam ArenA last October, we had the opportunity to talk with Ronald Stolk, who is working at the Medical Center at the University of Groningen where he is active in health research as Director of Research Data and Biobanking. At the Symposium he gave a keynote about a national initiative that has been launched, called Health-RI - Health... Ler mais sobre Health-RI initiative to federate medical metadata across nationwide infrastructure »

Hungary has become the 21st Member to join ELIXIR, following the signature of the ELIXIR Consortium Agreement by Dr. József Pálinkás, President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office in Hungary. Ler mais sobre Hungary becomes ELIXIR Member »

On December 1, 2016 the new e-IRGSP5 project, the follow-up project of e-IRGSP4, was launched to continue the support for the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG). The nine partners in the project consortium held their kick-off meeting December 12-13, 2016. The meeting was hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of the e-IRGSP5 partners. The e-IRGSP5 project will run for 24... Ler mais sobre New e-IRGSP5 support project held its kick-off meeting in Barcelona »

At the Digital Infrastructures for Research Conference in Krakow, Poland, we had the opportunity to talk with Yannick Legré, Director of EGI, the European-rooted federation for advanced computing and data research. EGI's aim is to serve the research communities in Europe and provide them with the necessary resources to overcome the scientific challenges. Ler mais sobre EGI to finalize service catalogue and ISO certification »